Recent content by Flyer729

The iPhone 4 supports HSPA up to 7mbits theoretical speeds, so on tmobile refarmed area you'll probably get around 3 Mbits, which is pretty decent. I'm in the Denver area and its been refarmed to support up to 21 Mbits theoretical speeds, on my iPhone 5 I get around 10 to 13 Mbits download...

I have an iPhone 5 with tmo and I get true 3G/4G speeds since my area has been re-farmed (updated). Everything works perfectly. In you're case, if your area hasn't been re-farmed, you'll technically will receive 2G (edge) speeds for 30 bucks. If you are in a re-farmed area, then you'll get...

If you want to do this online, you can. Just order a SIM card from tmobile ($.99) free shipping, once you get the sim in the mail go to tmo website and activate the sim. You'll have the option to port the number there and choose the prepaid plan you like.

I know you said you wanted to stay away from the iPad, but for info purposes I've had my prepaid 5G of data, 100 min per month plan on my iPad 2 and it works pretty well. I've swapped the sim between iPad, iPhone and galaxy nexus. The data worked on all without modifying any settings.